THE INFLUENCE OF THE ADRENAL GLANDS ON RESISTANCE

Open Access

1 March 1924

journal article
Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Vol. 39 (3), 457-471
https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.39.3.457

Abstract

1. The resistance of rats to bacterial intoxication is greatly decreased after double adrenalectomy. 2. This decreased resistance is dependent upon a functional insufficiency of the adrenal cortex. 3. A dose of killed streptococci or staphylococci can be obtained that is invariably fatal to adrenalectomized rats, before hypertrophy of cortical accessories, but never kills control rats.

Keywords

FUNCTIONAL
CORTEX
ADRENALECTOMY
DOUBLE
GLANDS
FATAL
CORTICAL
GREATLY
INVARIABLY

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

THE INFLUENCE OF THE ADRENAL GLANDS ON RESISTANCE
The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1923
INFLUENCE OF GLANDS WITH INTERNAL SECRETION ON THE RESPIRATORY EXCHANGE
The Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1922

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